The Universit of Iowa now has an insect collection from Iowa Wesleyan. (UI photo) What may be the largest collection of Iowa insects ever assembled was at risk of being dumped in a dumpster, but it’s ...
Walking through the University of Minnesota Insect Collection, curator Robin Thomson pulls a series of cases from one of dozens of shelves lining the storage facility. Opening it up, she pulls out a ...
Dr. Paul Johnson, 64, an entomologist at South Dakota State University, curates a collection of dead insects for SDSU, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at collections that are used in research ...
There are 3 million insects in an inconspicuous room on Washington State University’s campus. Completely filling row after row of metal cabinets, each individual specimen is pinned and labeled with ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- About 80 percent of all animals on the planet are insects, and the Enns Entomology Museum at the University of Missouri has one of the most important collections in the world. The ...
More than a century ago, students and faculty at the University of Iowa collected insects from around Iowa and as far away as Fiji. Pinned on cards with tiny labels, more than 40,000 of those insects ...
Pinned and labeled eastern Hercules beetles are part of the Virginia Tech collection. Virginia Tech entomology professor Paul ...
In collaboration with the Cornell University Insect Collection, the Museum of the Earth opened a new exhibit on March 28 called “Six-Legged Science: Unlocking the Secrets of the Insect World”. The ...
BROOKINGS, S.D. — To the pedestrian, the Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection is just a big room full of cabinets with drawers, filled with dead bugs. But to Paul J. Johnson, the century-old ...